Word: welled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decor is traditionally Spanish black and white. The floor is black and white tile, the walls are white stucco. A mural maintaining the black and white motif will eventually fill one wall. The room is discreetly well lit, and the limited number of tables avoids the danger of overcrowding...
Yale poses an impressive challenge, however. The Bulldogs' two front-runners, John Blake and the great Tommy Carroll, have both run better times than Mullin. These two have accounted for the undefeated Elis' victory margins most of the season, although John Morrison, Tom Cathcart, and Bill Cherryholmes have done well also...
...thus may miss it entirely. But they can attend a series of public lectures, especially if they are held in the late afternoon or evening when classes are not in session. Last year, for instance, Richard Poirier's afternoon lectures in conjunction with Comp. Lit 166 were very well attended...
...present tutorial and advisory system at Penn. "We don't have a tutorial system--it is not consisten with our tradition," he says. But, he adds, "I wish our counselling methods had worked out better. Each incoming freshman gets an academic adviser, who usually becomes his sophomore supervisor as well. The function of the adviser during the first two years is at best loosely defined, and many underclassmen rarely see the men assigned to them. When students begin to concentrate in the junior year, they receive a "major adviser," who works closely with them, planning courses and helping with other...
Still, Bradley says the freedom allowed instructors--"they can teach their courses any way they see fit"--can be bad, as well as good. "If there were more supervision, shabby work would be reduced." To some, this may seem contradictory. Further-more, "If I want to say something radical, I don't have to worry," says Bradley. He conveys the impression of a University based, from the President down to the students, on individualism and responsibility. This view is the one the administration and faculty put forth to the world, and it is probably the one they believe. Yet some...